I do hope I'm posting in the right place, (this type of forum is new to me) If so, I have an XP batch file prob. I'm trying to delete this from a text file blank line (i dont want it) blank line (i dont want it) " " ( "170" " " THEN info I want to keep " " THEN info I want to keep " " THEN info I want to keep " " THEN info I want to keep my biggest prob is getting rid of the " and also with the size="2" (in a line i don't want) the 2 may be in some of the info i want to keep. in a nutshell, I'm trying to pull nothing but the names on this page. aaotracker.com/webspec/index.php?addr=203.123.67.169:1716 I've used wget to DL the page, and change.exe to strip it as much as i can, but am stuck on this particular prob. Mechanix2Go seems to be the Guru with xp batch files, (from the MANY days I've spent looking for a solution,you have any ideas??

I got this msg from wget: index.php@addr=203.123.67.169:1716: No such file or directory ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

I figured it out thanks M2 I decided to use "for /f tokens=blah" from the log file to get what i wanted, I'm a bit of a newb at this stuff and at first glance a line that contains "for /f %%a whatever" is pretty intimidating. (I sat there for ages thinking to myself "so, what is %%a" but it ALMOST makes sense once you get it to work for the first time. thanks for your time anyway. PS not sure why that address didn't work for you, does for me (s'pose I should have added http:// before it) Cheers